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Festering Thicket
Land — Swamp Forest
·
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander (SOC)
2%
Decklist Inclusion
Times Brought
155
Decks Running
89
In Decks
761
Decklist Inclusion
2%
Format
Final zone distribution
63 instances55.6%
Battlefield
23.8%
Graveyard
6.3%
Exile
14.3%
Hand
Commanders that played this card
in tracked games-
1
Dina, Essence Brewer
33 decks
-
2
Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
16 decks
-
3
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
14 decks
-
4
Blech, Loafing Pest
3 decks
-
5
Rendmaw, Creaking Nest
3 decks
-
6
The Reaper, King No More
3 decks
-
7
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
2 decks
-
8
Ygra, Eater of All
2 decks
-
9
Camellia, the Seedmiser
1 decks
-
10
Dina, Soul Steeper
1 decks
The "good card" funnel
155 brought · 80 playersBrought to game
155
Ever drawn
59
Reached battlefield
45
Still on board at game end
35
Once cast, 78% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.
≥ -4.5pp
Players who cast this card win 26% of the time (n=45) , vs 17% when it never left the library (n=91).
Observed gap +9.4pp; 95% confidence interval -4.5pp to +23.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.
First-cast turn
n=45
16%
T1
11%
T2
7%
T3
4%
T4
18%
T5
42%
T6-9
2%
T10+
Median
5
P25
2
· P75
7
· max
11
Cast same turn as drawn
62%
45 of 100 times cast
45%
Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.
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Why isn't there more data on this card?
Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.
How is Playgroup Live card data collected?
Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting.